On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 10:52, Daniel B. wrote: > Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 02:04, Daniel B. wrote: > > > Allister McRae wrote: > > > >... There must be a > > > > way with those...you can do almost anything like you describe ... > > > > > > Last I knew, apt-get didn't have any mirroring capability like I > > > described. Do you know of some changes, or are you just assuming > > > that it can do anything? > > > > I think you want cron-apt. > > I see how cron-apt runs apt-get, and I see how apt-get has a > download-only option, but how would I tell apt-get to get > everything (from each APT repository in sources.list)? > > I don't think I want to use "apt-get --download-only upgrade"-- > wouldn't apt-get only download the packages that weren't already > installed?
I wrote a Perl script for myself that's been happily running for over a year now keeping an updated sid mirror on my file server. But if all you want to do is have a full debian mirror (sid, sarge, and woody) then just do an rsync with a debian mirror, excluding the directories for the architectures you don't want. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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